GARE DE LYON WAS BUILT FOR THE WORLD EXPOSITION OF 1900: Gare de Lyon, in the 12th arrondissement, is one of the six main terminus railway stations in Paris. Built for the World Exposition of 1900, the architecture of the building reflects the building style of the period, with a huge clock tower being its […]

Paris’s Busiest Train Station, the Gare du Nord, is also the Busiest in Europe: Gare du Nord is the busiest of Paris’s six terminus stations, followed by Gare Saint-Lazare and Gare de Lyon. As the name implies, the station services trains for the north of France as well as train services to the UK, Belgium, […]

Intercity Trains to Normandy Leave from Gare Saint-Lazare, the Second Busiest Train Station: For train travel to Rouen, Le Havre, Dieppe, Caen and Cherbourg, Gare Saint-Lazare is the station for you. Gare Saint-Lazare is the terminus for the long distance intercity trains that travel to and from Normandy. The regional Transilien trains to the west and […]

Charles de Gaulle – Paris Airport Shuttle: For our arrival in Paris, I wanted to book a shuttle from Charles de Gaulle Airport to our apartment in the Marais district. It’s been a few years since we’ve travelled to Paris and the Viator shuttle that we would normally use only delivers passengers to hotels and […]